Much of what we know about aliens comes from what abductees and contactees themselves report. Only when such information is factual and relevant can meaningful conclusions be reached. Fabrication, hallucination, and screen memories obscure the truth, and so various protocols exist to improve the signal to noise ratio. These include cross-correlating multiple eyewitness accounts and using hypnotic regression techniques to bypass the memory blocks and screen memories installed by abductors.

There is yet another source of noise, one not generally known but potentially widespread, which is the mimicry of alien contact by non-alien entities of an occult nature. Through telepathic means, occult entities have the ability to generate controlled hallucinations in the minds of their victims in order to reshape their beliefs and thereby control their behavior.

I was recently reminded of the first time I came into contact with a true UFO believer (and maybe an ET). It happened during my student days at a large, southwestern U.S. university. I had an appointment at the Student Health Center for my annual poke-and-prod (known to all women as the GYN checkup). Men will never understand the intensely unpleasant experience that most women in the western world subject themselves to every year in the name of reproductive health. And yes, guys, we get proctological exams too, so don’t whine to me about those. Of course, I’m aware of the many women whose lives are saved every year by early diagnosis of various diseases found in annual poke-and-prods. I’m not saying they’re useless, just that they are one of the most unpleasant gifts western civilization has ever bestowed on the female members of the species. (I’ll reserve the subject of mammograms for my blog post on torture devices of the Spanish Inquisition.)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER (or will sharing my ET experiences in a group help me?)

Many Experiencers seek hypnotherapy for help in retrieving repressed or partially-repressed memories related to ET experiences and in understanding and coping with their aftermath. But private therapy isn’t always necessary or even the best option for everyone. Experiencers who are comfortable sharing their memories and experiences with others and are open to the ideas of others often benefit from attending an Experiencer support group rather than private therapy.

Group Therapy

Experiencers often feel fear and isolation from family, friends and their everyday reality. And even though it might not be comfortable at first, sharing their experiences with people who are experiencing the same feelings can help them to overcome their sense of isolation, validate their experiences, raise self-esteem and successfully integrate the ET contact experiences into their lives. Support groups are not usually as effective at working on individual issues and don't provide the individual guidance and personal support that may be needed, but they can be helpful in recalling and working through abduction/contact experiences on a less intense and focused level, and group meetings are less expensive than private therapy. ET contact experiences are quite varied and unique, but they are all valid. If you attend a group, you will need to keep an open mind and not judge anyone else or their experiences.

Some years ago, I did an informal survey among approximately 100 fellow researchers. I asked what the question was they were asked the most. The reply was 'Are the extraterrestrials good or bad?' The question is of course a 'bad' question in that it starts from an unwarranted generalization. Can you say people belonging to a certain race, religion or country are bad? Or is mankind bad? There is no correct answer, as one has to take into account cultural differences as well as individual differences. So we rephrased the question and asked the members of our panel: "Overall, do you view the extraterrestrial presence as positive or as negative, and why?" Here are their replies, in the order that we received them.

The ET Presence: good or bad?

Helen Littrell

One thing we are mostly agreed upon is that beings—from other planets / dimensions / wherever—are really present on Earth and have been here for a very long time. However, until fairly recently it was neither politically correct nor personally safe to speak about them in any but a disparaging manner which, sadly, was an attitude adopted by the majority of the general public. It made no difference to our peers whether we may have been repeatedly abducted, seen ships in the sky or as they landed, or had personal face-to-face contact with “others.” I know from my own experience as a child that any mention of the “others” was strictly forbidden and resulted in very real threats of punishment by commitment to an insane asylum, courtesy of the family who raised me. So, wisely, I didn’t speak of these entities for many years, but my interactions with them continued as a young child and I looked forward eagerly to my only companions, the little blue orbs which appeared nearly daily and spoke telepathically to me.

My first memory of being taken came in a regression session that I had with my former boyfriend, who was a therapist, healer and acupuncturist. The year was 1995 and in my daily life I had no interest whatsoever in hi-tech. During this specific session he worked with his acupuncture needles all over my body and I was in a deep, almost hypnotic, meditative state. Before this, I hadn't had any memories of aliens or spaceships.

In the middle of the treatment I started to remember, and we had to stop the session. I asked for a paper to draw the scenery and memory that I was in contact with. I drew a picture of inside the spaceship. It was an extreme hi-tech and futuristic environment, the room was round and open with a high rounded ceiling. In the middle, there were about three beds of steel, and a glass dome on the side. There were eight or ten big smooth flat screens with a screensaver of something that looked like soft steppingstones. The chairs were swivel chairs with high, smooth, back support. It looked clinical and futuristic.

The memory that I got hold of in this experience of physical ET contact goes back to when I was between five and eight years old. It was in a period of traumatic experiences that I was taken onto this particular space ship. At the time, I lived one kilometer outside a little village in a forest with my parents and my two sisters, in the middle of Sweden. My parents were both artists. In this period, my father started drinking and became an alcoholic. At the same time, he started to abuse me sexually.

Author Anders Lidén from Sweden sent in these contact experiences. The first case involves Gösta Carlsson, known in Sweden as the Pollen King.

Case 1

In 1946, in the village Ängelholm in Southern Sweden, Gösta Carlsson (1918 - 2003) had a UFO experience that changed his life.

Gösta and his father had a bee farm where they tried to get out as much pollen as possible. Gösta worked at SJ, the Swedish Railway Company, and had no knowledge whatsoever about medicine or biology, etc. He was an engineer.

One day, he went for his evening walk near the so-called "Siberia Forest" when, around 8 pm, he saw a flying saucer land about 30 meters from him. (There is a monument at the place today to commemorate his experience). Gösta saw 3 human-like, beautiful beings walking out from the spaceship and they communicated with him telepathically. Gösta got some insights from them about how to get out more pollen from the bees. He kept his secret for many years (until 1971 when he went public to tell his story) and used his insights to start the production of pollen-based medicine. In 1956 they succeeded and they started the company Cernelle, and Gösta became a multimillionaire. He invested a lot of his money in the local hockey team Rögle BK, and in the sixties the team, against all odds, reached the top in Swedish hockey league. In 1963 Gösta started a daughter company Allergon where they produced substances for production of medicines for allergies.

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Interview with Julie L. Shepard

Julie Shepard maintains the ETMENA blog, which focuses on abduction accounts in the Middle East and North Africa. (http://etmena.blogspot.com).

As we start this interview, can you first tell us bit about yourself?

I am Dutch and Native American. I follow Native traditions, including work with Spirit Guides (do not use the word "belief" here as they are very matter-of-fact for Native people). Natives such as the Navajo believe they once lived underground with the "ant people," who had large heads and eyes not unlike the Zetas. My tradition is Haudenosaunee, which is Seneca, Iroquois. My mother was a holocaust survivor and so was my father; so there was trauma on both sides of my family. Because of that I grew up very early feeling like an outsider and also, it made me multicultural and interested in cultures from a very early age. I saw little green aliens on my roof when I was about five, and since then I have seen craft mostly far away, but also less than 500 feet above me at one time.

I began early on working with the Berkeley Psychic Institute, and I was a medium and healer at the Spiritualist Church. I am empathic, I can read energy, and I have used these skills to help immigrants and refugees with job training, cultural bridging, and empowerment, and ascension training. I have worked with foreign cultures my whole life and presently live in Agadir, Morocco.

Some weeks ago, we published an article by Miguel Mendonça who co-authored the book Meet the Hybrids with Barbara Lamb: Meeting the Hybrids. We followed up on that with an article where we asked members of our panel for their thoughts: The purpose of the hybrids. Now, three of the hybrids that were interviewed for Meet the Hybrids respond to that article.

Cynthia Crawford

I really enjoyed the article because it helps me to understand that there are other agendas than that of benevolence. Although all my experiences have been benevolent, there is no spiritual ascension without challenges, but understanding the bottom line of all beings is to ascend to that highest state of Creation, becoming All That Is.

In all the years of counseling star seeds to help them understand who they are and why they are having contact with other Universal beings, the only comment about hybrids were that the hybrid children were more loving than humans. They didn't make fun of others, nor did they find faults with anyone, and they found all beings to be interesting, beautiful, and loving. One such child that had been taken on the ships was a Chinese child living in the USA. She told her father that she liked the hybrid children so much more than humans because they played with her, they were eager to teach her how they did things, and they smiled and actually told her they "love her". This is a bold statement when our own humans say they feel safer with the hybrids, they feel love from them, and they are not judged by them.